Hidden inside television sit olivenites and television, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 394 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
olivenites and television tie for the highest Scrabble score from television at 13 points. The top 10 of 394 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in television: one comes from rearranging its letters, and television itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with television. For points, the strongest plays are olivenites and television — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling television turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with novelties. For points, the strongest plays are lenitives, novelties, and olivenite — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in television. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are invitees, lenitive, levities, novelise, novelist, olivines, veiniest, and veinlets, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in television produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evilest, invites, violent, and violins. For points, the strongest plays are elevons, evilest, invitee, invites, lievest, loviest, olivine, solvent, tensive, veinlet, velites, viniest, violent, violets, violins, and violist — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling television turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with events, invest, invite, listen, novels, olives, and silent. For points, the strongest plays are elevon, envies, envois, events, evites, invest, invite, levies, levins, livens, livest, nieves, novels, olives, ovines, slieve, sloven, snivel, soviet, svelte, venose, vetoes, vilest, violet, violin, vision, voiles, and voltes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 98 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in television. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, event, lines, lions, lives, loves, and noise. For points, the strongest plays are elven, elves, envoi, evens, event, evils, evite, ivies, levin, levis, lieve, liven, lives, loves, neves, nieve, novel, olive, ovens, ovine, seven, sieve, solve, stove, veils, veins, vents, vines, vinos, viols, visit, vleis, voile, voles, volte, volti, volts, and votes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in television produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, even, eves, evil, into, lent, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are even, eves, evil, levo, levs, live, love, neve, nevi, oven, vees, veil, vein, vent, vest, veto, vets, vies, vile, vine, vino, vins, viol, vise, vlei, voes, vole, volt, and vote — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling television turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, its, let, lie, lit, lot, and net. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, sev, vee, vet, vie, vin, vis, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in television. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, es, et, in, is, it, li, lo, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in television plus one additional letter.
television is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for television. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
television is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing television unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are olivenites and television, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from television earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in television produce 394 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 98 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.